Is trade representative said the President Donald Trump had directed the we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts United States commerce the u. S. Investigation could lead to washington imposing retaliate tree tariffs on france thats something the french government would want to avoid but theres little doubt that there is a growing sense of frustration amongst many french politicians with trumps approach to international disagreements can we should mr trump threatens everyone in all areas hes become an article amity when you were head of such a power you have a responsibility you dont amuse yourself by threatening states that are as responsible and democratic is france and that seek to the find the sort of regulation needed to address todays new economies so that there can be justice that the European Commission has been pushing for tech firms to abide by. E. U. Competition law rules and pay more tax in Europe Frances new law is a major step in that direction it also fulfills 1. 00 of the french president s Campaign Promises emanuel mycroft moving to the us but taxing wealthy Tech Companies was one of the yellow vests main demands so French Public opinion is likely to be on macro side. Aljazeera paris. Ms an economist and chief executive of a Tax Justice Network a specializing in analysis of tax avoidance and tax evasion he joins us live via skype from oxford thanks for being with us why do you think france decided to go it alone on this in the end. Well the front has been putting pressure on the European Commission to make a move on this for a while now because of course the french government under its own domestic pressure this is a sign that they really dont feel theyre going to be European Movement on this and so theyre having to move unilaterally but its also to put pressure on the o. E. C. D. The organization which is now leading a global process for reform of the International Tax rules to say if you dont sort this out by the end of 2020 then this is what were going to be doing to make sure that least we get some revenues from these companies and so how far off are we do you think from from any kind of global effort on this or the eventually every city in the e. U. After all for their efforts so look since 2015 really theres been a process looking at Digital Companies and thinking about how to tax them more effectively but what happened in that process is a realisation that although some of these companies are more extreme in the type of tax behavior they have theyre really on the same spectrum as other Industries Everyone is using intangible assets as a way of shifting their profits away from the countries where they really earning those profits in order to reduce their tax bill so what the o. E. C. D. Is now looking at a set of measures that would align the tax base associated with Multinational Companies with the location of their real Economic Activity where they carry out their sales but also where they have their employment so both the consumption and the production and now a global deal on that basis would probably be the biggest change in the tax will since the 1930 s. And would really strike a strike at the heart of the kind of tax haven activity that we see from ireland and the netherlands and luxembourg and a lot of european but also other states the Cayman Islands bermuda and so on and as we showed our Corporate Tax haven index if the o. E. C. D. Doesnt deliver then from us and the u. K. And a whole set of other countries are showing that. They will take unilateral action and will see a splintering of the International Tax system and know that the us a clearly unhappy about this and theyve decided to investigate under the kind of broad law which is being used in the in the trade dispute with china can we expect retaliatory tariffs for france on this but id be surprised partly because you know this is a limit to how many trade wars you can have going at once even if you dont want drawn but also because you know the u. S. Is very heavily invested in a multilateral agreement coming out of the o. E. C. D. And the french move here is designed to put greater pressure for a multilateral agreement at the o. E. C. D. Its almost as if this move by the by the u. S. You know the left hand doesnt know what the right hands doing were just going to hit our without really thinking about where theyre going to get the supposed to be good always tires alex common thank you very much indeed for your thoughts and such thank you thank you now lets return to the investigation into events in the philippines that were joined now by sam her trees a fellow for the the as you for policy studies focusing on drug strategy he joins us live from washington d. C. Thanks for being with us so that the philippines me strongly criticized or have ever have strongly criticized and opposed the investigation how do you think itll work if they cant if they dont join in with it. Its unclear exactly how this opposition this resistance to the u. N. Will will manifest itself once the investigators arrive on the ground will they be turned away at the airport or will the government simply not speak to them and not assist them provide them with data but the government is clearly furious that the u. N. Is investigating their human rights situation but if this is long overdue the police have admitted to killing 60 some 6600 people in the war on drugs but the actual number of open investigations of people that will probably never get investigated you hear numbers from 25230000 inside the philippines of people who have been extra to extrajudicial be killed in the war on drugs that gap in between those figures is quite big isnt it how difficult is it to find out whats actually going on. Its very big its you see this out in a lot of countries actually with that wage the war on drugs mexico for instance has a hard time discerning which killings were specifically drug related versus gang related versus other things but in the philippines however the police have a lot of open investigations and investigations that are probably never get completed and they dont have much reason to complete them because the findings are very disturbing they will simply say theyre a poor country we cant afford to do all these things and people dont really push them on it and so someone needs to account for all these people whove been killed and how they died and just as government is clearly under scrutiny with this decision but how much support does he still have within the country for the for the policy. Its terrifying but its a very high rate of support domestically within the philippines what president has done is hes waging a modern day program much as the czarist russia did against jews in the 19th century hes taken a cornucopia of social problems social ills many of which are structural in nature and basically scapegoated this on to one group in this case drug users saying if you just get rid of this one group of people just just unleash hell on them things we better will make the philippines great again so to speak president has bragged openly about his desire to kill millions of people he famously said. Hitler killed 3000000 jews the number is actually 6000000 but i would be happy to kill 3000000 drug users in the philippines his foreign foreign secretary today denounced the u. N. Investigation and he has good reason to this is a man who when he was the special representative to the u. N. To the u. N. From present day in 2016 tweeted he says i believe that the drug menace is so big it needs a final solution his words all caps like the nazis adopted that i believe no rehab time and again he praises hitler he said he had the right ideas but he killed the wrong people hes sung his praises of fascism quote to quote him directly in 26 saying he tweeted give fascism a chance read up on it it is the best written political philosophy very. Very elegant democracy has failed and then someone said what about hitler he said while hitler was not all wrong you better learn to accept that this is the man who is now the foreign secretary of the philippines. Thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. Thank you. The Ruling Military Council in sudan says it has formed an attempted military coup and arrested 16 officers including the alleged ringleader it comes as the military council are in discussions with opposition politicians about signing up to a deal that will eventually return the country to civilian rule the military ousted former leader bashir exactly 3 months ago 5 but he survived gunshots and tear gas to disperse a demonstration by a shia group in nigerias capital hundreds of members of the Islamic Movement of nigeria gathered outside parliament in a budget to demand the release of their leader who has been in the detention since 2015 at least 2 people were killed on tuesday and 40 others arrested as police and protesters clashed workers still being done to identify those killed in argentinas socalled dirty war after the conflict ended in the 1980 s. A Forensics Team was set up to search for hundreds of missing people and histories of all reports from what is aris their mission has been taken around the world. Truth and justice have been for decades the Main Objective of the argin time entropy elegy Forensic Team thats why they continue to work to shed light on what happened to the thousands of people who were disappeared doing argentinas duty war over 40 years ago my mom was taking samples from the relatives and we would create forwards with information from the diary or and of the relative who disappeared there we compare it with the bird samples we had the team was created in 1906 when argentina embarked on a process of exhumations of the many unmarked graves found in the country believing that many of them could well contain and identified victims of forced disappearances the argentine mantra pollard ji Forensic Team believe that with their work they can help the relatives find justice but also some type of closure theyre currently working to identify the remains in this boxes there are 600 remains that allegedly belong to people who went missing during the dictatorship in argentina in the 1970 s. And eightys their expertise has taken them to 55 countries including south africa syria iraq colombia and mexico where the attempt to help relatives find the remains of their loved ones they use genetic profiles drones infrared cameras to locate mass graves in the most remote locations but if they would either says thats not the most important part of their investigations the main church will introduce was to incorporate the family members in the war usually the medical forensic system just takes out information for their families. And their provider overboard book well so we do it in norway we have the farmer it is the center of our work to reduce our personal interaction may shows they are in for about what we are doing in many cases families dont trust industry they come to us because they dont trust industry one and all optional thats why they played a crucial role. In the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 students in mexico who were killed by a drug cartel with the complicity of the countrys Security Forces the relatives wanted the Team Involved in the search and not mexican authorities in argentina there are many who are still trying to locate their relatives the necklace was father disappeared in 1975 he was a left wing activist and they have a gun they were under but i have always been trying to find him and i know their remains and maybe to him we have very Little Information of what happened but i want to find whats left. And thats why this Anthropology Team is crucial for victims of conflict and violence because they locate the victims and help hold accountable those involved in serious human rights abuses around the world. Under siege when a site is. Brazils congress has taken a major step towards reform in the countrys Pension System a priority for president bush for narrow in the 1st of 2 votes the bill passed the lower house with a clear majority supporter said the measures are needed to stave off another recession there are many who are still oppose it as Priyanka Gupta reports the no vote that brazils president says will lead to prosperity but for some jerry both scenarios pension reform plan falls far short of static means that i am very ashamed why is happening here tonight on wednesday the lower house approved balts narrows plan with huge numbers in the show vote yesterday here for homeowners these reforms are aimed at reducing inequality im sure that is the goal of all parliamentarians here those who voted for and also against the bill was my god but these protesters think the poor will have to work longer why politicians maintain their privileges at last when our daughter i mean is that. The working class is living in misery heads of families are living on the street because a car pay the rent its tough so before they measure the pockets of the poor they have to reach inside their own pockets because there are certain many people that are in the congress retiring at 4050 years and we have to die to retire brazil doesnt currently have a minimum age for retirement and its constitution guarantees Retirement Benefits for all both sonera wants to change that his measures include a minimum retirement age of 65. 00 for men and 62. 00 for women also an increase in Workers Pension contributions and cuts to some benefits. Some say the reforms are important in a country would spend 45 percent of its budget on pensions a rapidly aging population means there could be both burden for Young Workers but. The government things it would save around 266000000000. 00 over 10 years money that south americas biggest economy can use to put itself back from the brink of recession middlebury all the amazing its pretty scary 1st the government doesnt have any more money and this is why the reform is so urgent this reform doesnt happen then we have to cut into more important areas secondly because of social justice i am in favor of pension reform. The lower house is expected to vote for the 2nd time in the coming days before the bill goes to the senate my god but protest as one day will bring brazil to a standstill if the bill is passed and the demands are ignored. Al jazeera. Still to come this news hour more than 20 countries signed a letter to the un condemning what said to be chinas mass detention of we get prisoner abuse. And a stream runner is looking to go up in the world peter has the details and support. Hello there its been a very unsettled picture of course across much of Southern Europe this is an improvement on the weather picture as we head through the next couple of days to get a chat on the satellite and actually quite a bit of activity across Central Regions of western europe but what about the rain just yet but the good news is a sigh is that much of the south in the southeast those strong thunderstorms that really are clearing through certainly by friday the rain pushing using say across much of the black sea quite a bit radical central areas and there is a band of rain stretching really from germany down tools and old and if they more widespread rain here on saturday carrying out towards the west and i say london with a high of 23 and pretty good too across into turkey wants us to some upholstery so 24 in ankara and 28 celsius with my sunny skies in athens then we had down to Northern Africa its been very warm into tunis for really the last few days and again the temperature here is pretty high compared to the average but no so a lot of cloud to talk about and sunny not really anything in the way of range 35 is the temperature on friday a very warm day in cairo 40 want to degrees celsius then as we head off into south we see that damage it comes back down again but as you can see tunis up to about 38. 00 so thats about 6 degrees above the normal but sunny skies but it will be a hot day. Conflict passion. To any successful such. As most loved it is no different behind the cameras this week tensions run high as the producers are forced to balance creative and social issues with the demands of commercialisation. How a subset of all its episodes fall of soapbox mexico on aljazeera. As iraq rebuilds itself following years of conflict women struggle to play a bigger role politically and Domestic Violence also remains a problem. Some of the brave women battling abuse talk to aljazeera about the struggles they face and their pursuit of justice. And one of the top stories here on jazeera police in gibraltar have arrested the captain and chief officer from a detained Iranian Oil Tanker theyre accused of breaching e. U. Sanctions on syria the arrests come amid claims iran tried to impede a British Oil Tanker late on wednesday leading to an intervention by british warships. Here in Human Rights Council has been great to begin a preliminary investigation into what it calls a Staggering Number of murders in the philippine governments war on drugs. And frances passed a controversial tax bill targeting tech giants like google apple and facebook has prompted u. S. President donald trump to order an investigation into the planned levy a move that could result in retaliatory tariffs. A car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has kille